#ChooseWisely

From a reality TV star becoming president elect (😳) to Brexit to shocking celebrity deaths. There was water poisoning, pipeline battles and the kardashians still haven’t gone away!!!!! Surreal events swept the political and pop cultural landscapes of 2016.

2016 seems to be the Meek Mill of recent years, taking L after L. (Still luh u Meek😊) …but!… 2016 also had its dope moments. (No pun intended). The longest running war in America is the war on drugs. It works like this: Target, Criminalize, Imprison, Slave.

2016 marked a historical change in the prison system. A major change in policy took place in 2016. The Justice Dept announced they will no longer use for-profit prisons. The prison system had been set up against minorities in order to make money for corporations. Capitalism and corporate greed caused a cycle of unfortunate events and helped to create some of the unfortunate realities of urban America…. for profit prisons were one of the major contributing factors to the systematic dismantling of inner-city families.

There seems to be this running joke amongst us that 2016 was a major collective failure.